Your early morning training readiness check with an HRV tool like ithlete just got a whole lot more interesting for analysis. With a paid-for ithlete pro account (trial available) you can link to Garmin Connect. ithlete pulls out your in-exercise HRV data. More info from ithlete: <here> Although I’ve not had a look and play…

2016 should be an interesting year for the adoption of HRV. Many of you are probably already familiar with some of the advanced HR analyses that can be performed with HRV. Hopefully some of you have benefitted from these and related features. I have mentioned and discussed HRV for well over two years (others for much…

We’ve just heard that the new ithlete app has been released/ ithlete pro. Presumably still based on the same underlying HRV engine from HRV Fit Ltd. The following video tells you a bit more about it. Having had a quick glance; the feature that stands out is the ability to start to discern the causes…

You have a Garmin 920XT or maybe you’ve seen my review of the Garmin 920XT and want one. You are aware of all the clever stats in the 920XT and yet you ‘only’ have a low- to mid-end turbo trainer/powermeter that won’t send data to your 920XT. You realise that this means that you may…

This product is now discontinued. It still works though. See comments at the end. This is an overview of some of the more interesting functionality you can find in FIRSTBEAT ATHLETE software. Polar and Suunto users can get some additional insights into their training over an above their watch-vendor’s standard software offerings. Garmin users too will…

The warmup readiness check is displayed 12 minutes (on the 920XT) into an exercise. Usually you will still be warming up then. The readiness check will display a message something like “Fair”, “Good”, “Excellent” indicating how the watch thinks your readiness for the session might be. FIRSTBEAT write this recovery algorithm. They use Excess Post-Exercise…

This morning, when faced with the decision of “Should I train? or not” I have several bits of kit that tell me different things. Being a grown-up I don’t listen to them slavishly but I DO take into account the information I am being presented with. Here are some thoughts: 1. After yesterday’s session my…

I’d like help to compile a useful list of triathlon apps, other than the ‘main’ ones like Garmin’s or Strava. So, for example, I’d be interested in a tyre circumference calculator based on tyre size. Here is one to work out Heart Rate Training Zones based on LTHR: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.app2droid.hrzc.base&hl=en Here’s James Driscoll’s pace calculator: http://www.dialsolutions.com/run/…

I’ve tested a few sports heart rate monitors (HRM) recently and used many over the years. Here’s a quick post to say which I think is the best. Firstly I’ve only looked at these from the point of view of sports-usage, rather than medical accuracy & usage. You’ll find a lot of Polar HRMs used…

Following on from my earlier, massively successful post ‘910XT – not a lot of people know that‘. Here comes some more vaguely useful and relatively obscure bits about the 910XT. Any additional ideas welcomed too. 1. Settings > System > Data Recording – Needs to be set to PER SECOND for RR HRV to work…

The drip of leaks from Garmin on the 920XT continues, this time with images from Garmincdn.com. I encourage you to look at http://tritriagain.uk who drew my attention to these new images of the Garmin 920XT. At the time of writing http://tritriagain.uk link directly to the images on the Garmin website so they are copied here…

The drip of leaks from Garmin on the 920XT continues, this time with images from Garmincdn.com. I encourage you to look at http://tritriagain.uk who drew my attention to these new images of the Garmin 920XT. At the time of writing http://tritriagain.uk link directly to the images on the Garmin website so they are copied here…

Reblogged from Ariel Madden from bioforcehrv.com on Sept. 9, 2014 . Let’s talk “Monthly HRV Load”… You’ve seen it in the box on the left, but you’ve been too caught up in what your daily HRV score is telling you about how to adjust your workouts to really care. After all, you can’t go wrong with…

It’s a hard question to answer. “How fit am I?” Lots of triathletes would say VO2 max and there are probably a million other ways than what I’m going to briefly talk about here. Q: VO2 max – how do you measure it properly? A: In a lab So maybe it’s not so easy to…

Well I use Sport Tracks and sometimes occasionally look at the improving Garmin Connect. Next time you finish a workout on your 910XT just press the stop/start button AND DON’T DO THE RESET. When you start up Garmin Conenct you might, as I did for this session, have a quick look at what’s there. I…

There’s no substitute for training (except aero wheels!) but you’re gonna buy some gear so here’s what I think you NEED if you want to do half well. this is NOT what you need if all you want to do is finish. this is what you need to be a bit competitive and get the best…

I’ve just written a brief review of my experience with the BioForceHRV android app. I think it was an interesting experience. What do you think? Basically HRV analysis is simple to do and the benefit is that it might stop you from training TOO MUCH. Related articles the5krunner fraud? Garmin 910XT firmware upgrade from 2.70…

I’ve just written a brief review of my experience with the BioForceHRV android app. I think it was an interesting experience. What do you think? Basically HRV analysis is simple to do and the benefit is that it might stop you from training TOO MUCH. Related articles the5krunner fraud? Garmin 910XT firmware upgrade from 2.70…